12.01.2010

The Cave


Daniel Pommereulle in La Collectionneuse by Eric Rohmer, 1967

"As everything, for him, was an article of faith, nothing, to his mind, was difficult to understand: the Great Flood had covered the entire world; before, men had the misfortune of living a thousand years; God conversed with them; Noah had taken one hundred years to build the ark; while the earth, suspended in air, stood firmly at the center of the universe that God had created out of nothingness. When I said to him, and proved to him, that the existence of nothingness was absurd, he cut me short, calling me silly." (Giacomo Casanova, from The Story of My Life)

How does a mixtape of sounds about thinking would sound : try out by throwing an ear here.

Mike Kelley, Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile (w/Sonic Youth)
Socrates that Practices Music, Live at the Luminaire
Atlas Sound, Logos
Richard Pinhas, Le voyageur (Nietzsche by Deleuze)
Scritti Politti, Jacques Derrida
Robert Ashley, Concrete: Ideas About Thinking
Oneohtrix Point Never, Emil Cioran